On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Mathias Schindler wrote:
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 8:08 PM, Ray Saintonge wrote:
It's also good to remember that Mahfouz was not universally admired in his own country.
Looking at Elfriede Jelinek, Orhan Pamuk and John Maxwell Coetzee, I think that this is some kind of requirement for writing interesting texts. I might mix cause and effect.
O'Casey, Steinbeck, Pasternak, Fo....
Looks like I'll be reading the Cairo Trilogy on the long flight to Wikimania.
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I would *love* to talk about good Egyptian novels etc. to read beforehand... but maybe over on the Wikimania list? :)
-- phoebe